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African Virtual University
This courseware hosts textbooks and modules available in English, French and Portuguese languages. The portal also hosts 219 textbooks, 91 videos and 46 modules in Mathematics and Sciences; 4 modules in ICT Basic Skills; 19 modules in Teacher Education Pr

Connexions
Connexions is a dynamic digital educational ecosystem consisting of an educational content repository and a content management system optimized for the delivery of educational content. Connexions is one of the most popular open education sites in the worl

Multimedia Educational Resource (MERLOT)
MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. It offers access to e-books, e-journal articles, online co

Opentextbook.org
Open Text Book is a registry of textbooks (and related materials) which are open that is free for anyone to use, reuse and redistribute. It is run by the Open Knowledge Foundation. Books can be viewed by subject category.

Textbook Revolution
Textbook Revolution is a source for free educational materials. This is a student-run, volunteer-operated website started in response to the textbook industry constant drive to maximize profits instead of educational value. The books are offered for free

Electronic Resource

BUBL Information Service
A national (UK oriented) information service for the higher education community. Excellent for tracking down UK institutions. It also links to over 10,000 quality Internet resources covering all subject areas, and sub-divided by type of resource. Search o

Cooperative African Newspapers Project
A new project to create an electronic database of holdings information for newspapers (all formats and all languages) published in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially it will consolidate holdings information for collections in North America, but will later expa

HippoCampus
HippoCampus is a project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE). The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content in Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities

iLumina
iLumina is a digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science. It is designed to quickly and accurately connect users with the educational resources they need. These resources

IMARK
The Information Management Resource Kit (IMARK) is a partnership-based e-learning initiative to train individuals and support institutions and networks world-wide in the effective management of agricultural information. IMARK consists of a suite of distan

Intute
Intute is a free online service providing access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write

Multimedia Educational Resource (MERLOT)
MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. It offers access to e-books, e-journal articles, online co

National Academies Press
The National Academies Press (NAP) allows readers in most developing countries to obtain Academies reports free from the NAP Web site in portable document format (PDF). Access is also available to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a multidi

National Science Digital Library
National Science Digital Library is the nation’s online portal for education and research on learning in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

OECD Working Papers
OECD Working Papers are prepared by the OECD Secretariat, consultants, or delegates as input into various OECD committee and working group processes. They are organized around a number of series based on programmes within the OECD including Food, Agricult

Open Educational Resources Commons
Open Educational Resources Commons is a structured database of links to high-quality resources found on other websites. OER Commons provides a single point of access through which educators, students, and all learners can search, browse, evaluate, and dis

Open Science Directory
The Open Science Directory has been developed by EBSCO and the Hasselt University Library based upon a request by marine information management experts collaborating within the framework of the IOCs (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO) I

Pinakes: A Subject Launchpad
Hosted by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, this is a useful shortcut bringing together links to 38 of the principal, high-quality subject gateways, together with 10 multi-subject gateways

Reseau Electronique francophone (REFER)
This guide and network offers a very large number of links – searchable by subject or geographically – to information about the countries of the South – particularly francophone Africa – including educational institutions, research organisations, media, c

UNESCO
The UNESCO catalog lists over 100,000 UNESCO documents and provides access to the full text of many of these. There are separate portals in French and Spanish

World Bank – Global Economic Monitor
Conceived by the World Bank team responsible for monitoring and reporting on day-to-day developments in the global economy, Global Economic Monitor is a “one-stop shop” portal for analysis of current economic trends, and economic and financial indicators.

World Newspaper Archive
A large, searchable digital archive of international newspapers held by Center for Research Libraries (CRL) and other major newspaper storehouses. Amongst foreign newspapers to be offered digitally are 35 Latin American (such as Brazilian, Argentinean or

Multimedia Educational Resource (MERLOT)
MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. It offers access to e-books, e-journal articles, online co

Open Courseware Consortium
An Open Course Ware (OCW) is a free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials for colleges and universities in the areas of Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, Mathematics and Arts. These materials are organized as cour

Open Courseware University Teknologi Malaysia
UTM Open Courseware is a collection of high quality digital learning materials based on courses offered at this university. The learning materials, in a complete course format, may include lecture notes, lesson plans and exercise questions in the areas of

University of California Berkeley YouTube
University of California Berkeley YouTube is a multimedia digital library of high quality educational materials on Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts and Mathematics. These materials are available in the form of video.

University of Michigan Open Course Ware
University of Michigan Open Course Ware offers access to a range of course materials, videos, software tools, student work and more in the areas of Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts and Mathematics.

Yale University Open Course Ware
Yale University Open Course Ware provides free and open access to a selection of introductory courses taught by distinguished teachers and scholars at Yale University. The aim of the project is to expand access to educational materials for all who wish t

Scholarly Electronic Journals

ABC Chemistry
This is a directory of permanently available journals covering chemistry or chemistry-related subjects. The directory only includes content where there is at least one-year of free full-text article access, or extensive free supplements to printed version

African Journal Online
Abstracts of over 250 African-published journals, with access to some full text online, and a document delivery service.

African Journals OnLine (AJOL
AJOL is a database of journals published in Africa, covering the full range of academic disciplines. The objective of AJOL is to give greater visibility to the participating journals, and to the research they convey by providing access to tables of conten

America Physical Society
Access to the Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA) and 11 journals produced by the America Physical Society

American Institute of Physics
AIP publishes 12 journals, 2 magazines, and a conference proceedings series. Their Scitation platform hosts over 2 million articles from more than 200 scholarly publications for 28 learned society publishers

Annual Reviews
Annual Reviews publications operate as a high quality filter, prioritizing and synthesizing the primary research literature in 37 different disciplines for the Biomedical, life, Physical and Social Sciences.

AsiaJOL
AsiaJOL is a database of journals published in Asia, covering the full range of academic disciplines. Journals are included on the basis of their quality of content and proven record of regular publication. Asia Journals Online is a portal to scholarly

Bangladesh Journals OnLine (BanglaJOL)
BanglaJOL is a database of journals published in Bangladesh, covering the full range of academic disciplines. The objective of BanglaJOL is to give greater visibility to the participating journals, and to the research they convey. BanglaJOL provides inf

Bioline International
Bioline International is a not-for-profit electronic publishing service committed to providing access to quality research journals published in developing countries. Explicit goal of reducing the South to North knowledge gap. Publishes in the following ar

CAB Compendia
Four Encyclopaedic, multimedia tools that bring together a wide range of different types of science-based information Username: dares5 Password: salaam7

Canadian Science Publishing (NRC Research Press
Full text of 16 online journals with back files dating back to 2001 in most cases. It covers the following areas: botany, cell biology, chemistry, civil engineering, earth science, fisheries and aquatic sciences, forestry, microbiology, physics, sport sci

De Gruyter
Access to over 100 titles delivering a wide variety of content in humanities, medicine, the sciences and law. Includes titles which are in the highest ISI ranks

E-LIS
E-LIS is an open access archive for scientific or technical documents, published or unpublished, on Librarianship, Information Science and Technology, and related disciplines. It offers free access to “e-prints in library and information science” research

Edinburgh University Press
Edinburgh University Press publishes over 30 journals across a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences

Eldis
Eldis is an internet based information service: filtering, structuring and presenting development policy, practice and research information via the web and email. It maintains an ever-growing library of editorially selected and abstracted online documents

Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL)
EIFL provide a useful list with links to a number of free access resources. Resources are available in English, electronic journals in French, and electronic resources and journals in Spanish and Portuguese

Electronic Journals Library
The Electronic Journals Library is a service offered by the University Library of Regensburg to facilitate the use of scholarly journals on the Internet. At the moment, it contains 19540 titles, among them 2195 online-only journals, covering all subjects.

EMERALD
Over 120 full text journals are available in the area of management, computing, engineering and library and information Sciences

FreeFullPDF
This resource provides access to free full text scientific articles in PDF Format. It is a simple search engine indexes more than 80 millions of free references (mostly to journal articles, theses, patents and posters)

InformationR.net
Information Research is an open access, international, scholarly journal, dedicated to making accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines.

Jstor
An archive of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term high

National Academies Press
The National Academies Press (NAP) allows readers in most developing countries to obtain Academies reports free from the NAP Web site in portable document format (PDF). Access is also available to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a multidi

Nepal Journals OnLine (NepJOL)
NepJOL is a database of journals published in Nepal, covering the full range of academic disciplines. The objective of NepJOL is to give greater visibility to the participating journals, and to the research they convey. NepJOL provides information on each

Open J-Gate
The World’s Largest Open Access English Language Journals Portal – OPEN J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of journal articles available online, with links t

Optical Society of America
15 Optics and photonics journals published by OSA, conference papers, and selected OSA meeting content, including Advances in Optics and Photonics (AOP), new in 2009.

Philippines Journals Online (PhilJOL)
PhilJOL is a database of journals published in the Philippines, covering the full range of academic disciplines. The objective of PhilJOL is to give greater visibility to the participating journals, and to the research they convey. PhilJOL provides inform

Portal LivRe!
Nuclear Information Center (Brazil) maintains a portal to ease the identification and access to free journals available on the Internet. It currently has 2,525 free journals. There is a multi-lingual search interface allowing the use of Portuguese, French

Royal Society
Seven leading international journals from the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science. Titles cover the whole of the biological and physical sciences

Royal Society of Chemistry
RSC Online: 37 full text journals, a range of key databases and a series of specialist periodical reports

Royal Society of Chemistry
RSC Archive: Back file containing all articles published by the RSC (and its forerunner societies) from 1841 to 2004

Sage Publications
Over 550 journals in the business, humanities, social sciences and STM

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
SPARC is an alliance of academic and research libraries and organisations working to correct market dysfunctions in the scholarly communication system. Developed by Association of Research Libraries (ARL) SPARC serves as a catalyst for change. Its pragmat

Scientific Commons
The ScientificCommons.org allows the user to search for full-text articles across over 1,100 repositories from 55 countries from just one interface. It also identifies authors from all archives and makes their social and professional relationships transpa

Sri Lanka Journals OnLine (SLJOL)
Sri Lanka Journals OnLine (SLJOL) is a database of journals published in Sri Lanka, covering the full range of academic disciplines. The objective of SLJOL is to give greater visibility to the participating journals, and to the research they convey.

Vietnam Journals OnLine (VJOL)
VJOL is a database of journals published in Nepal, covering the full range of academic disciplines. The objective of VJOL is to give greater visibility to the participating journals, and to the research they convey. VJOL provides information on each parti

World Bank Publications
A package of electronic databases that includes: World Bank e-Library, World Development Indicators (WDI) Online and Global Development Finance (GDF) Online

WorldWideScience
WorldWideScience provides one-stop searching of national and international scientific databases and portals. This enables anyone with Internet access to launch a single-query search of 32 national scientific databases and portals from 52 countries. Users